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Events for Brown Bag Series - 2005
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Building on History: Piranesi and Vico'
1/10/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Erika Naginski, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruins of Modernity Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Detroit: Living Concepts for a Fragmented City'
1/24/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lars Gräbner, Architecture and Urban Planning
Ruins of Modernity Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Turn Within: Self Absorption, the Media, and the Fate of America'
1/31/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Susan J. Douglas, Communication Studies
Documentary and Film Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Strategic Essentialism? Race, Violence and Sex in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues'
2/7/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Melanie Boyd, Women's Studies and English
Featuring Our Fellows Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity'
2/14/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

James I. Porter, Classics and Comparative Literature
Rethinking the Humanities Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Painter as Activist: Creating Place, Creating Resistance'
2/21/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Janie Paul, Art + Design, Social Work
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Risk, and its Place in the Life and Art of Poetry'
3/7/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Carl Phillips, poet, Washington University, St Louis
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'By the Ground and At Dusk: Photographic Remnants of the Soviet Union'
3/14/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Boris Mikhailov, photographer, Ukraine and Berlin
Ruins of Modernity Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What's "Sacred" About Violence in Colonial America? Some Preliminary Thoughts'
3/21/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Susan Juster, History
Featuring Our Fellows Series

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Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What Is It That Literary Humanists Do?'
3/28/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Ross Chambers, emeritus, Romance Languages
Rethinking the Humanities Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Poetic Embodiment'
4/4/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Linda Gregerson, English
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The World of Romanian Classical Music'
4/11/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Cornel Taranu, Romanian composer and conductor
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The First Five Years of Montaigne’s Life: Readings From a Biography in Progress'
9/12/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
George Hoffmann, Romance Languages

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves'
9/19/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Documentary, Film and Media Series
Bill Crawford, writer and media producer, Austin, Texas

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Two Roads Converged: The Practices of Poetry and Medicine'
9/26/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Artists-at-Work Series
Roy Jacobstein, physician and poet

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Shifting Views of Shanghai: Changing China, Changing Lives'
10/3/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Artists-at-Work Series
Haiping Yan, Theatre, Film and Television, UCLA

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The War Crimes Tribunals for Yugoslavia: Are Trials After Atrocities Effective?'
10/10/2005; 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Human Rights Series
Robert Donia, History, and Steven Ratner, Law
Please note this event begins at the later time of 12:30 PM

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Story of Handspring, Sogolon, and Tall Horse'
10/24/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Artists-at-Work Series
Basil Jones and Adrian Koher, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, South Africa, and Yaya Coulibaly, Director of the Sogolon Puppet Troupe, Mali

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Anti-Terrorism and the State of Human Rights: A Global Perspective'
10/31/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Human Rights Series
Srdjan Dizdarevic, President, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Monday Brown Bag Fall 05 - 'Sexuality and Style: The Roman Cinaedi as a Homosexual Subculture'
11/7/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Bruce W. Frier, Classics and Law

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Riding the Atlantic World Circuit: A Household’s Journey Through Slavery and the Law'
11/14/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Martha S. Jones, History and CAAS

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Witness for the Prosecution: The Emergence of Legal Self in Henry Lovelich’s Merlin (1425)'
11/28/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Andreea Boboc, English

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Belonging: Claiming and Collective and the Individual'
12/5/2005; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Karen E. Outen, author and Careers-in-the-Making Fellow